MacFinish 2D-USB Handleiding

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MacFinish 2D-USB and MF8.x software
another race into the ‘Ready’ mode! The air-shaft icon becomes highlighted! If not, the result will have vanished!
Note; Manual start by clicking the pistol-icon!
Lets imagine that the second race starts about one minute after the first race.
No problem for the operator; again he should set the second chronometer bar in ‘ready’ mode and have the race started.
You will notice that the timer of the second race indicates a time difference of about 1 minute compared to timer 1:
You can do the same for the chronometer 3 and 4.
Warning; If you already recorded something in the 'image memory', BEFORE the finish of the first competitor, (look
in the 'Memory Usage bar' = top part of the 'Actions' window), clear that unwanted photo by clicking in the 'Trash' icon !
As soon as any competitor is about to arrive, the operator should press the 'Arrival Remote Control' switch (no
photocells are used). Then a photo-finish photo is manually being recorded. Naturally the operator needs to be sharpeyed
and alert!
Each time the Arrival Remote Control button is pressed, the flag-icon will quickly flip over showing ‘A’ (arrival), as if a
real flag was being waved at the finish of each competitor:
Do notice that for as long as the Arrival Remote Control push button is pressed (= as long as recording is going on), the
'Memory Usage bar' on top will gradually be filled with grey, marking the amount of box memory that has been used so
far.
So each time the Remote Arrival button is pressed, we are recording a part of a photo-finish photo.
In order to have a look at what we have recorded so far (even if not all of the competitors have finished yet), you should
click the eye-icon in the Scrolling camera view-window:
The recorded image will be shown in your 'Scrolling camera view' window.
As soon as all competitors have finished and the photo-finish photo has fully been recorded, the operator will click the
Stop-icon (hand) of that race;
Next, we can read the recorded photo-finish photo by clicking the disk-icon of that race in the 'Actions' window:
The program will now ask you to save the document (now as type “.MF4”) under a given name:
Now type a filename and click ‘SAVE’. In case you would select ‘CANCEL’, the reading function will not be executed.
The chronometer automatically jumps back to 00:00:00. This means that the race photo has been read and saved to disk.
WARNING: After the document has been saved on disk, click the trash-icon:
That way you can clear the used image memory. The 'Memory Usage bar' will then become empty, to record the next
finish :
In case you would forget to do this, the memory used to record the last race will be adhered to the memory used to
record the next race. As a consequence, the photo-finish picture of the next recorded race will be attached to the photofinish
photo of the race as previously recorded. This would make everything very complicated, and possibly prevent you
of recording all competitors if the memory gets 100% filled up!
After having clicked the trash-icon, the following message will appear:
Click OK to delete or CANCEL to preserve the recorded image.